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Bataan Event Marks History of Death March
(Silver City Sun-News)
Thirteen survivors were expected to be on hand for the start of the Bataan Memorial Death March Marathon hosted at the White Sands Missile Range
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| News From: Monday, March 26, 2012 |
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Bataan Death March: Keeping The Spirit Alive
(Current Argus)
The Bataan Death March memorialized the story of thousands of American heroes by running, walking through the White Sands Missile Range
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| News From: Friday, March 23, 2012 |
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Bataan Memorial Death March Expects 6,786 Memorial Marchers
(Las Cruces Bulletin)
The seventieth anniversary of the World War II prisoner-of-war atrocity that killed thousands will be marked by thousands of people marching 14.2 or 26.2 miles to honor their memories.
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| News From: Monday, March 28, 2011 |
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March Recalls What Bataan Survivors Experienced
(Albuquerque Journal)
It took Kyle Cobb more than five hours to complete the Bataan Memorial Death March while hauling a thirty-five pound back pack. He was one of over six-thousand to tackle the memorial run.
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| News From: Friday, March 25, 2011 |
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More Than 6,000 Expected To Make Bataan Memorial Death March Marathon
(Las Cruces Bulletin)
Over six-thousand runners have registered for the Bataan Memorial Death March Marathon located at White Sands Missle Range on Sunday.
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| News From: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 |
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Bataan Memorial Death March Takes Place On Sunday
(Alamogordo Daily News)
Lac Cruces will host a record number of runners for the Bataan Memorial Death March this coming Sunday
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| News From: Friday, February 18, 2011 |
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Registration Open For 2011 Bataan Memorial Death March
(Army.mil)
The 2011 Bataan Memorial Death March will start at the White Sands Missle Range in New Mexico on March 27.
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| News From: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 |
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Three Firefighters Complete Bataan Memorial Marathon
(My West Texas)
Jeff Thorn retired from the National Guard in February and made the trip to the White Sands Missle Range in New Mexico to commemorate the anniversary of the Bataan Death March.
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New York Troops Commemorate Bataan Death Marathon With Memorial Run
(Read Media.com)
Members of the New York National Guard commemorated the annivesary of the Bataan Death March in the Philippines at the White Sands Missle Range on March 21.
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| News From: Monday, March 22, 2010 |
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Record Number Gather To Honor Bataan Death March
(La Cruces Sun-News)
Corey White, Carlsbad, brought home top honors on the Bataan Memorial Death March Marathon with a time of 2 hours and 47 minutes.
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| News From: Sunday, March 21, 2010 |
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Soldier Takes Part In Bataan Death March Memorial Run
(Killeen Daily Herald)
New Mexico's White Sands Missle Range will be the site of the Bataan Memorial Death March. Sergeant First Class Robert Rasmussen will compete in his sixth memorial run.
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| News From: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 |
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Local Runners Head West For Bataan Memorial Death March Marathon
(The Huntsville Item)
The Bataan Memorial Death March Marathon takes place on March 21 at White Sands Missle Range in New Mexico. The race memorializes the death march of U.S. and Filipino soldiers forced to do a four day march on April 9, 1942
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| News From: Monday, January 4, 2010 |
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Time approaching to prep for world-famous Bataan Memorial Death March
(Current-Argus)
The high desert terrain of the Bataan Memorial Death March will offer a challenge to the most trained and experienced runners. The race is done to honor the members of the armed forces who defended the Philippine Islands during World War II.
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| News From: Sunday, June 21, 2009 |
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Guardsman has competed in 60 marathons
(Southtown Star)
Trent Sinnet is a marathon runner and he has done nine of the grueling 26.2 mile races in full military gear. He does them with other National Guard members and one of the races he does is the Bataan Memorial Death March in Las Cruces New Mexico.
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| News From: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 |
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Bataan Marathon a 'history lesson'
(Salt Lake Tribune)
The 20th annual Bataan Memorial Death March soared to record numbers of participants with 5,300 drudging through the 50 mile an hour winds and thick sand to honor the veterans of World War II who were forced to march the 1945 Bataan Death March.
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| News From: Monday, March 30, 2009 |
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Wienke to Compete in Bataan Memorial Marathon
(The Clare County Review)
Sam Wienke, who finished third in the 50+ men carrying a pack division, will be back to run the 2009 race.
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| News From: Friday, March 27, 2009 |
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Bataan Memorial Death March Draws Record Number
(Las Cruces Sun-News)
More than 5,000 registrants entered for the 2009 Bataan Memorial Death March held at the White Sands Missle Range in New Mexico.
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| News From: Thursday, March 26, 2009 |
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Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range Tests Physical, Emotional Strength
(Las Cruces Sun-Times)
The Bataan Memorial Death March, presided over by survivors of the eponymous 1942 tragedy, is as much a mental battle for participants as it is a physical one.
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| News From: Sunday, March 30, 2008 |
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Bataan Memorial March draws record number
(Las Cruces Sun News)
The 2008 Bataan Memorial March saw a record number of participants. Though primarily a military athletic event, more than a third of the 4,400 this year were civilians. Two-dozen ex-POWs, all in their late 80s and 90s, came with their families from around the country.
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Marathon honors Bataan survivors
(El Paso Times)
Bataan Death March is an endurance marathon dedicated to commemorating an event in which troops captured by the Japanese in World War II were forced to march sixty five miles without food or water. Local survivor, ninety-three year old Thomas Foy planned to be on the sidelines today to congratulate those who complete a challenging 26.2-mile marathon, mostly through sandy desert roads. About 70,000 American and Filipino troops who surrendered in April 1942 on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines were forced to march to Japanese prison camps. Those who collapsed along the way were shot or bayoneted leaving fewer than 900 survivors.
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| News From: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 |
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Hill group will run grueling Bataan Memorial Death March
(Salt Lake City Tribune)
A group from Hill Air Force Base is preparing to run the 2008 Bataan Memorial Death March marathon at the White Sands Missile Range in Las Cruces, N.M., an event held in memorial of the victims of one of the most brutal POW tragedies in history. The group hopes to finish the 26.2-mile course in about five and a half hours. In 1942, more than 70,000 American and Filipino service members were forced by Japanese soldiers to march seventy miles through the jungles of the Philippines to a prison camp during which they were abused and tortured while others were beheaded, disemboweled, shot and denied food and water leaving the death toll between 6,000-11,000 on the march alone.
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| News From: Wednesday, April 4, 2007 |
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Bataan Memorial Death March Marathon Honors Veterans
(Ruidoso News)
The two teams from the Ruidoso Athletic Club did well, finishing 11th and 12th, nearly together. This was mandatory, as all teams had to finish within 20 seconds of each other or be disqualified.
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| News From: Friday, March 23, 2007 |
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Marchers Take To The Sand To Honor Veterans At Bataan Memorial Death March
(Las Cruces Sun-news)
It commemorates a grim chapter in World War II history, when in 1942, thousands of American and Filipino soldiers were surrendered at the Bataan peninsula in the Philippines and then made to march for miles through rugged terrain with little food water or medical care. Among the prisoners were 1,800 New Mexico National Guard members. Many died during the march or in the years to come in death camps.
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| News From: Saturday, March 20, 2004 |
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Lest we forget: the Bataan Death March is a march of honor
(Alamogordo Daily News)
Army Maj. Ray Pickering has mixed feelings about the Bataan Memorial Death March, the event he founded in 1987. On one hand, Pickering is not surprised the number of participants has grown from 134 in its first year to 4,202 marchers in 2002. But then again, he never imagined the march would reach such stature.
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| News From: Friday, March 19, 2004 |
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Trekkers to recall Bataan Death March
(The Salt Lake Tribune)
Thousands of military troops, National Guard members, reservists and civilians will trek Sunday through more than 26 miles of unfriendly terrain on this southern New Mexico military range to commemorate World War II's Bataan Death March. The march honors some 70,000 American and Filipino troops who were forced to march 65 miles without food, water or medical attention to a railhead on their way to Japanese prison camps after surrendering on the Philippines' Bataan Peninsula in April 1942.
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